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DaC driver Mike’s theory… Michael Kennedy (M30) is a real fan of the mobile phone. Standard handset, BlackBerry, flip or slide operation… he loves them all – but for his passenger’s use! Mike told Call Sign: "I’ve noticed that since mobile phones, of whatever category, have become so increasingly popular, passengers do not seem to get so agitated when under pressure to get to their destination." Mike continued with his theory: "Instead of fidgeting on the back seat or bashing my ear about the traffic, they relax more, phoning ahead to advise of delays or even checking their emails - if they have a machine that will do that kind of thing. Or sending emails too," he added as an afterthought. "It takes the pressure off me for those 20/30 minutes that they are in the cab and I’m doing my best to get them to their destination. It gives them something to do, occupying their time and mind," |
"MOBILE PHONES - FEWER AGITATED PASSENGERS!" |
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 Michael Kennedy - passenger’s technology makes his taxi a calmer place |
who, answering in the negative, requested more information. After all, he had originally only asked if Mike had change of a fiver… "Who would have thought that a little electronic gadget, the size of a packet of cigarettes, would allow you to be able to speak to someone on the other side of the world, or send them a text message, regardless of the time of day," Michael asked our hack?. Rounding up his theory, Michael ended by saying: "So you see, with passengers having mobiles, they can sit happily in my cab communicating with the world and leaving me to concentrate on getting them safely and speedily to their destination. That’s why I just love ‘mobility’" he said with a huge grin. And did you want pound coins or fifty pees…" © Call Sign Magazine MM9 |
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said Michael. "People have become increasingly dependent on their mobile communicators and indeed the wide variety of devices now available are steadily becoming ever-more sophisticated and capable of real technical wizardry," he added. "Did you know that today’s mobile devices have more processing power than was available to put a man on the moon in 1969," he enquired of our impressionable Call Sign reporter |
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PHYLLIS HAS A QUICK DRAG… Thanks to Call Sign and Intellicig! |
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An unusual thank you arrived on
Call Sign’s desk recently. It came from the wife of
former Dial-a-Cab driver Brian Borden – one of this
magazine’s many on-line readers. His wife, Phyllis, has
several claims to fame – being known to many driver’s wives as
Phyllis Gorgin, head girl at the former east London
Brady Girl’s Club, being one. Another was as director of
both Stardust and Stagestruck stage schools that
introduced such names to a mass television audience as the
former star of Eastenders, Tamzin Outhwaite. Nowadays, Phyllis is more of a housewife with similar likes and dislikes to most taxi driver’s wives. Her biggest dislike though, is her own habit of smoking. "I’ve tried to give it up," Phyllis told Call Sign, "I’ve tried so many times, but I just can’t!" Then it was non-smoker Brian’s turn to chime in. "Smoking itself is an awful habit. I read the article in Call Sign by DaC Account Manager, Caroline McGowan and how she had not only tried unsuccessfully to give it |
 Phyllis and Brian on the town and she can still have a puff...! |
carried away, Phyllis came back to add that she still had a
"real ciggie" occasionally, but had cut down greatly thanks to
using Intellicig whenever she was out and also when there were
visitors to their Essex home. "It has put sociability back into my dictionary," she said, "because no longer do I have to leave the restaurant table for a puff. Intellicig is perfectly legal because although the tip lights up and you exhale a vapour that looks remarkably like smoke, it isn’t real, yet there is that slight nicotine taste that makes it feel as real as it possibly could be." Phyllis ended by saying: "I can’t see myself ever totally giving up smoking, but at last I’ve found something that actually does what it says on the packet! I’ve cut down without the need to give up." Brian re-entered the conversation by adding that he hadn’t yet given up on the hope of Phyllis actually giving up entirely, but for the moment he was very grateful for the small mercy of Intellicig! "And," he added, "can we also thank Call Sign. Otherwise we’d have never known about it…" |
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up, but about the smell it leaves and something else that also
really hit home – how unsocial it was because of the regulations
that ban smoking in public places. Like Caroline, when Phyllis
and I are out with friends, be it for a meal or even just a
drink, Phyllis has to suddenly creep off to an outside area for
a quick puff! When we read that Caroline had discovered
Intellicig, whilst we weren’t expecting it to be any more
successful than previous smoking ‘cures’ Phyllis had tried –
such as vegetarian ciggies and awful tasting gum, we were both
impressed that Intellicig didn’t claim it would help smokers to
give up, just to cut down. So we sent off for a trial and it is
just brilliant." Before Brian could get too |
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